Single-Payer Healthcare

My hope and prayer is that everyone, regardless of political party or persuasion, will inform themselves about exactly what President Obama and Congress might do to our country. This is not the time to idly stand by and allow apathy and indifference consume our hearts and minds. This is also not the time to be sucked in by the flowery language of the President that has so mezmerized the nation. Read the details of what is being proposed. You may just find a devil in the details.

Medicare is already a single payor. Persons need a choice and a govt. option will give them the choice.

It's a shame that this option is not on the table.

Everybody has access to healthcare, even illegal immigrants. It's a matter of twisting words.

In the short run, at least, an asteroid is more likely to hit New York than Congress passes single payer health care this session.

I support single-payer and probably always will but I realize that it has absolutely no chance in hell as both self-serving parties are in bed w/the insurance companies and lobbyists. I think had single payer been enacted decades ago then our healthcare system would be top-notch.........before the greed that went along with buying and selling healthcare became the focal point of most peoples' mindsets instead of ensuring that everyone has healthcare.

This is medicare for everyone. The most successful healthwise, economical (cut the waste and fraud), and morally obligatory system ever devised in modern society.

There is absolutely NO guarantee that Americans will get better health care in a single payer system. We're being asked to trust the government on blind faith. Democrats say they're going to cut out waste! Why start now?

A single payer system can apply to either private or government executed health care. The government can either be paying privately run hospitals and doctors offices, or government run ones. What's important is that there is one payer paying the bill - this eliminates the overheard of a middleman (insurance companies). Some experts think that this is enough to finance universal coverage by itself.

Single-payer is the "government pays for everything" option, right? This is bad for America for two reasons. First, whenever government "takes over" the management of something, three things always happen: costs rise, corruption begins or is accelerated and the receivers of the "benefits" of the program lose benefits. This is the bazooka aimed at the mosquito. 85% of Americans are covered by health insurance and the vast, vast majority are satisfied with their coverage. Say what you want to, the US system of health care is the best health care system in the world and people from all over the globe flock to it when their own health care systems fail them. It is estimated that around 40 million do not have"health insurance" for a multitude of reasons, one of which is their own personal choice. Imagine, a health care system "run"like the social security system where, like it or not, the government collects your premium, regardlss of their inherent level of inefficiency, corrupt... Read more